2022 was the first year that CALA lead a group of volunteers to assist in this project. Interested volunteers visit their lake (or a specific lake that you can access); once in June (to see if loon pairs are on territory), once in July (to see if chicks hatch), and once in August (to see if chicks survive long enough to fledge). The data collected from this monitoring will assist Birds Canada in determining the overall trends of the Loon population. If you are interested in becoming a Loon Survey volunteer, or want additional information, please contact remembercala@gmail.com. Please reference Loon Survey in the subject heading.

Birds Canada has been working to track the Common Loon population by monitoring chick hatch and survival rates since 1981. In a report published August 2021, Birds Canada confirmed that analysis of 40 years of data shows a distinct and disturbing decline in loon populations in Canada.